Alex’s jaw tightened. “You think I wanted this? That I enjoyed watching her pine for someone who didn’t truly know her, watching you stumble around your own damn feelings like you were blind? We were trying to protect her! You of all people should understand how important that is.”“You were trying
LoganThe air in the armory was hot. I was slick with sweat, breathing in heat, and feeling like I could exhale fire from how angry I was.The armory was laden with the scent of old sweat and steel. I’d been at it for over an hour working until my muscles ached and felt leaden. I moved through fight
EvelynI stared out the narrow window watching the streets come alive with people going about their day. Most were just rising, but I had already been up for hours. After everything that had happened the previous day, how could sleep even be possible?Instead, I lay awake staring at my ceiling, or p
“You married me, Evelyn. You said vows to me, and you couldn’t even do me the decency of being truthful about who you are. Do you know how this all makes me look? I look like a fool! I feel like one, too. And you knew. You knew the whole damn time that I was being played, but it didn’t matter becaus
LoganShe lied to me.That’s all I could think. All I could comprehend in that moment. She had lied.But now, wait, that wasn’t completely true. She didn’t lie. She’d hidden it. Conveniently, she had excluded the information until it was more favorable. She had tucked it away behind those wide, earn
I stepped onto the platform and opened the pages I had spent hours perfecting. My fingers brushed the edge of the parchment, trying to steady myself. When I raised my head, it was with considerable effort.“I’m Evelyn,” I began, voice clear despite the tightness in my throat, “and today, I stand bef